Quotes about Personal Growth

There are four: delaying of gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing. As will be evident, these are not complex tools whose application demands extensive training. To the contrary, they are simple tools, and almost all children are adept in their use by the age of

Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process.

Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within, and it is certainly because of the pain involved in a life of genuine self-examination that the majority steer away from it.

We must always consider our personal discomfort relatively unimportant and, indeed, even welcome it in the service of the search for truth.

Sooner or later, if they are to be healed, they must learn that the entirety of one's adult life is a series of personal choices, decisions.

M. Scott Peck

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

Dependency is but one of the forms of behavior to which we incorrectly apply the word "love" when concern for spiritual evolution is absent.

The essential ingredient of successful deep and meaningful psychotherapy is love. ... Intensive psychotherapy in many ways is a process of reparenting.

It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.

In my personal struggle for maturity, I am gradually becoming aware of new insights, which tend as if of the themselves to want to slip away from me.

The weight is off my shoulders. I don't live in the past anymore. I look forward, instead of back.

Once you understand a wound it loses its power to destroy you.

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us when we ask for help, but in a way that will make us more mature, more real, not in a way that will diminish us.

To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.

The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but . . . what we are meant to be.

When have you been most you, the very most you?

Oh, my darling, you're not dumb," her father answered. "You're like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace. It just doesn't happen to be the usual pace.

You're going to have to do something about yourself. Nobody can do it tor you.

Birisini sevince onu de?i?tirmeye kalkmak yanl?? bir ?eydi.

San?r?m sonunda büyüdüÄŸümü ve herkesi memnun etmenin imkâns?z olduÄŸunu anlad?m. Ben de onun yerine kendimi mutlu etmeye karar verdim.

She had a lot of experience bringing up younger brothers herself but had never been close to a little girl. The

Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?' 'It's like having an operation,' said Treece. 'You don't know you've had it until long after it's over.